Nigel J. Andrews wrote:
> > > The reason that it needs to be rewritten in C is that it needs access to
> > > internal stuff that the backend doesn't expose. (For example, the
> > > transaction counter, end-of-WAL pointer, etc.) I don't think Perl would
> > > offer anything except creating an entirely new dependency for Postgres.
> > > Also, C code would be easier to keep in sync with the backend code that
> > > accesses the same stuff.
> >
> > True, but doing all that text manipulation is C is going to be very hard
> > to do and maintain.
>
> What about using embedded perl? I've never done it before but the mention of it
> in manpages has flashed past my eyes a couple of times so I know it's possible.
>
> Did the discuss decide on what was required for this. Last I noticed was that
> there was a distinction being made between system and user tables but I don't
> recall seeing a 'requirements' summary.
My guess is that we could do it in Perl, and call some C programs as
required.
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